Page 14 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1979
Butler on athletic directors’ bad side
United Press International
HOUSTON — Twiss Butler is the
nemesis of almost every male athle
tic director whose college fields a
major football program in the United
States.
She has heard their arguments
that football makes the money to pay
the bills for “lesser” sports and that
equal spending for women athletes
would bankrupt athletic budgets and
force a restructuring of football prog
rams.
Those arguments, she says, are
myths which can be debunked by
financial statistics from the NCAA
but usually aren’t because athletic
administrators don’t call attention to
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them and the male-dominated press
is too lazy or too close to the athletic
programs to use them.
A represenative of the League of
Women Voters on the Bay Area Title
IX Coalition, the League City, Texas
resident wants to provide an alterna
tive view about high school and col
lege football, which she said “is
something that is so overwhelmingly
accepted as masculine that every
body is allowed to be completely
babyish about it.”
“The NCAA asserted that at many
schools the profits from football pay
for the rest of the sports programs,
including women s sports,” Butler
said. “But by the NCAA’s own fi
gures, 81 percent of the athletic de
partments are not making money.
Does that indicate football supports
the other sports?”
The heart of the controversy is Ti
tle IX, the federal plan for equalizing
athletic expenditures without regard
to sex.
Butler says athletic directors of
major college football programs have
ignored implementation of federal
guidelines to equalize spending for
men and women athletes.
“Women in college sports are re
ceiving more money (since the fed
eral government authorized the Ti
tle IX equal spending guidelines) but
so have the big football programs,
she said. “There has been an in
crease in spending all across the
board.”
Colleges without major football
programs have easily adjusted to
bring their spending in line with Ti
tle IX, she said.
She was skeptical about the
NCAA’s 19 percent figure for athle
tic departments making money be
cause of football.
“It makes you wonder whether at
the apparently successful schools
that there isn’t some really creative
bookkeeping. The kind of things that
turn up in their comments show
some disregard for being meticu
lous,’ she said.
She said common misconceptions
held by Title IX critics were that
equal spending guidelines would
force colleges to start women’s foot
ball teams or force colleges to sup
port a woman swimmer with the
same financial considerations that it
does a male football player.
“What we might get for a female
swimmer is a better all-around com
petitive situation and program,”
Butler said. “We might get the coach
put on full time instead of half time. ”
Title IX became law in 1972 and
the Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare was charged with
enforcing it.
“In July, 1978, the universities
were supposed to be in compliance.
But the HEW did not have guide
lines that they were willing to go to
the wall for,” she said, explaining
that that pleased the athletic dire
ctors and left the HEW with a repu
tation of “gutlessness. ’
The 1978 policy interpretation
“was a way to try to nail down some
of the uncertainties so that HEW
could perhaps get up its courage and
go after some of these complaints,”
she said.
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sion recommended to HEW that it
drop a recommendation backed by
the NCAA that would have given
schools five more years to bring
spending for football into line with
Title IX guidelines.
“Before they dropped the football
exemption, the (civil rights) commis
sion’s position with respect to this
football exemption was inconsistent
with every other position they had
taken on behalf of justice under the
law,” Butler said.
She said athletic departments also
have argued they were exempt from
the equal spending guidelines be
cause alumni contributions rather
than federal funds kept their depart
ments running.
“They don’t show us any figures on
how this works,” she said.
Admittedly not a fan of football,
Butler characterized the sport in
Texas high schools and the major col
leges as “farm teams.”
Her views were formed despite
having “50-yard-line seats” to Uni
versity of Minnesota football games
when she was growing up. Her
father was a Minnesota professor and
representative to the school’s athle
tic committee.
“I always wondered where these
football factories got their start, ” she
said. “Maybe back at Harvard a hun
dred years ago some college admi
nistrator looked around and said,
‘The boys look a little peaked.
Maybe if we got them out and ran
them around a little they would have
sounder minds and healthier
bodies.’ Somewhere it got out of
hand. ”
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By Mark Patterson
Rockets rout
Golden State
United Press International
HOUSTON — Calvin Murphey
sparked the Houston Rockets to a big
early lead, and Dwight Jones and
Moses Malone combined for 37
points Wednesday night to lead a
133-92 rout of the poor-shooting
Golden State Warriors.
The Warriors, 7-8, hit only 35.7
percent of their shots in the first half.
Turvis Short scored 16 points for the
Warriors.
Houston had not won by more
than eight points this season, but
Murphey gave them a big lift in the
game’s early minutes, scoring 12
quick points and diving on the floor
to intercept passes. Murphey scored
20 points before leaving the game
with a bruised knee in the fourth
quarter.
Malone had 12 rebounds to go
with his 18 points. Rudy Tomjano-
vich chipped in 14 points, Ricky Bar
ry added 15 and Robert Reid scored
12.
The five-game winning streak was
the first of that length for the Rockets
since March 1977.
Holtz keeps fans laughini
while he cuts up opponen
“I’m going to lift weights frequently this year. I may have tofighlj
the alumni. We’re going to he better than the prognosticators belie
hut not as good as the alumni think. ”
— Lou Holtz, Sept. 3,1
If Lou Holtz isn’t the best coach in the nation, he’s surely I
funniest. The football genius from the University of Arkansas hast
his wit from East Liverpool, Ohio to Miami, Fla., from New York']
Hollywood, and has come away with scores of fans and followers.
His comedic reputation earned him an appearance on the Tom
Show with Johnny Carson before the 1978 Orange Bowl game. 1
the show was over, Holtz had won over Carson as well.
The little red-headed coach can tell a joke.
“I don’t want anybody to ever do a story of my life and call it "Rut.
work from dawn to exhaustion.”
Holtz does know when to joke and when to be serious. Like 1
the Orange Bowl victory over Oklahoma when he suspended I
starting players, among them Heisman Trophy candidate Ben Cowiii
because of a dormitory incident with a UofA coed. His disciplin:
action gained Holtz national attention. The 31-6 Arkansas vicl
made Holtz a national hero.
In his 2Vi seasons as head joker at Arkansas, Holtz has conipil«l|
28-4-1 record, a .848 winning percentage. In his two full seasons,tl
Razorbacks have gone to two post-season bowl games.
“I didn’t care when the fans started throwing oranges onto thefieli
I’m just glad we weren’t going to the Gator Bowl.”
Bowl-game invitations have followed Holtz throughout his coachii
career. In his first head coaching position — three years at Williamai
Mary — Holtz took the Indians to a 23-20 record and the Tangeriu
Bowl in 1970.
In 1972, Holtz moved on to North Carolina State Universtiy wb
he turned the Wolfpack into a national power. In his four yearsi:
Raleigh, the Holtz-led Wolfpack won 33 games and appeared in foil
straight bowl games.
Holtz was hired away from N.C. State by the New York Jets inITii
In his one year as a professional coach, Holtz led the Jets to all-
record. He quit at the end of the season.
Frank Broyles, then the Arkansas coach and athletic direct#;
offered Holtz a chance to return to college football as the coadi
Arkansas. Holtz jumped at the chance and became a Razorback.
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“Our practices have been so physical, our players are callint
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Holtz brings the Razorbacks to Kyle Field Saturday in quest oft |jes
eighth-straight bowl game. Since coming to Arkansas, Holtz hasnevd
lost in the month of November. If the trend continues, the Razorbad
will go “bowling” again this season.
With a 5-1 conference mark, a victory over co-leader Texas ami
share of first place in the Southwest Conference, the Razorbacks as
very much in this year’s Cotton Bowl picture. Because of their lars pd, theA
following, if the Ilqgs do not iqake it to the Cotton Bowl, bo* cue team
representatives are saying that the Razorbacks will receive ain inyto [the hall t
tion to the Sugar Bowl. bky Car
But Holtz is only thinking about the Cotton Bowl and the S\'( gies with
championship, a title that has eluded him. The Aggies and SMUaif
the only hurdles in his quest for both.
Whether he makes it to Dallas on New Year’s Day or not, youca:
bet Holtz will take whatever happens in stride.
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sas Coach Lou Holtz said
day the Razorbacks are in _
to meet Texas A&M Saturday
will need to pay close attentiont
kicking game.
Running back Gary Anderses
turned to practice Wednesday
being sidelined with a neckii
Noseguard Alfred Mohammed
defensive tackle Jim Elliott boll
limited play. Mohammed hadi
cium deposit in his right arm
Elliott pulled a groin muscleatp
tice Tuesday.
Cornerbacks Trent Bryant
Hugh Jernigan are listed as
for the Aggie game. Fresl
Ronald Matheny and walk-on
man Ken Dameron will starts!
corners if Bryant and Jernigan
play, Holtz said.
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